• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Solar panels degrade over time, I don’t know what the numbers are but they used to be dysmal, like 30% reduction in generation capacity over 5 years. Whatever the actual numbers are, we will constantly be replacing panels. I am sure we can figure out refurbishing too at some point.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah they’re definitely better now, I’m reading anywhere between 1% per year or 12.5% at year 25. There are other things that can pop up though, micro cracks causing localized overheating of the panel - to backing failures and other physical issues. I’m interested in standing some up at some point but the capital eludes me at the moment.

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        6 months ago

        I’m am certainly wrong, that figure was something my dad told me as a kid, we were on solar back then.

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        6 months ago

        Do you know the type of pv panel that was used 20+ years ago? I lived in an off grid house and my dad mentioned that at one point.